THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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To what point are the hacks intentionally inundating us with Ashton and Bo and The Singer to avoid engaging in the nitty gritty on The Man They Love?
Of course hacks would say they never do anything on purpose. Just one problem -- the industry always finds the wherewithal to do things on purpose. One wishes not to engage in psychobabble but what the industry actually does is perhaps but an expression of a collective unconscious of comatose minds.
And happily, as GCI at $3.76 and SSP at $1.93 and MNI at FIFTY-SIX CENTS show, WE CAN DO THINGS ON PURPOSE BACK.